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Symbols and Signs: Clarification
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On May 2, 2008, at 6:21 AM, NABOKV-L wrote:
> On another point, what's the story with "beech plum"? Alexander
> Dolinin says all editions have "beech", but Sandy Drescher says
> (also at Zembla) that the /New Yorker/ had the "correct" beach.
> Which account is right? And if Nabokov had meant the spelling
> error (which as Sandy Drescher said is consistent with "spelled
> out"), would he really not have included a note directing the
> magazine not to correct it?
>
> Was beach-plum jelly really available in the U.S. in those days?
Yes, according to the Beechnut Company archives. Gerber made only
baby foods.
VN was not able to "direct" his editors. [See J. Morris, "Signs and
Symbols and Signs" The Nabokovian, 32: [Spring] 1994, pp. 24-28.] In
addition to the title and "beach" other "corrections" by the New
Yorker were consolidating two paragraphs in Part 3 and omitting the
Arabic numeral headings.
The New Yorker, May 15, 1948 p33. "Symbols and Signs":
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